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rescriptively

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

By rescript.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on œconomical reform the crown has (where they are not granted or rescriptively held) the dominion of the soil

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History

Etymology

From rescriptive + -ly.